NoteTitle supplied by cataloger. Digitized photograph donated by Martin Lemelman on May 17, 2021. Collected through the Brooklyn Jewish History Project of Brooklyn Public Library. This project is funded by the David Berg Foundation.
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TitleThe Lemelman family collection. Father with his two sons behind the counter of their candy store in Brownsville.
Biographical NoteMartin's parents, Tobia ("Teddy") Lemelman and Gusta ("Goldie") Scheichter, originally from Poland, were Holocaust survivors. They met and married in a displaced persons camp in Germany. In 1947, they came to America where their first son, Bernard was born. They lived on the Lower East Side, then moved to a farm in upstate NY, and finally settled in Browsville, Brooklyn, where the family took over a candy store and named it Teddy's. The bulk of the interview concerns Martin's childhood in the 1950s and 1960s and the candy store. Photographs are accompanied by Martin Lemelman's captions.